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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1916. 583

Now, therefore, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, in pursuance of the said Act and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf, do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows:-

As from and after the seventh day of August, 1916, subject as hereinafter provided, the importation into the United Kingdom of the following goods is hereby prohibited, vis.:-

Air guns and rifles.

Sporting guns, carbines and rifles. Oranges.

Provided always, and it is hereby declared, that this prohibition shall not apply to any oranges which are the produce of any of Our Dominious, Colonies, Possessions or Protectorates, nor to any goods of the kinds of which the importation is prohibited by this Proclamation which are imported under licence given by or on behalf of the Board of Trade, and subject to the provisions and conditions of such licence.

This Proclamation may be cited as the Prohibition of Import (No. 8) Proclamation, 1916.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and in the Seventh year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

NOTE:-Previous prodanations were published in the Hongkong Gazettes of the 7th April, 19th May, 9th and 30th June, 21st July, and 25th August, 1916. Proclamations have also been issued pro- hibiting the importation into the United Kingdom of Belgian Bank Notes and of Unset Diamonds, and this number of the Hongkong Gazette contains a proclamation prohibiting the importation into the United Kingdom of Cocaine and Opium.

No. 412.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

Order made by the Governor in Council under Sections 3 and 4 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, (Ordinance No. 32 of 1915), on the 21st day of September, 1916.

The Schedule to rule 41 of the rules made by the Governor in Council under the above Ordinance, which were published in the Gazettes of the 7th, 14th and 21st January, the 7th April, the 5th May, the 16th and 23rd June, the 28th July, the 18th and 25th August, and the 1st September, 1916, respectively, is hereby amended as follows:-

(1) The following headings are deleted :-

(c) Absinthe;

(c) Arrack;

(c) Black plates and black sheets under inch thick; (B) Cape garnets or rubies;

Chemicals, drugs, etc., the following:--

(B) Anthracene oil;

(B) Coal tar, all products (except creosote) obtain-* able from and derivatives thereof, suitable for use in the manufacture of dyes and explosives, whether obtained from coal tar or other sources, and mixtures containing such products or deri- vatives;

(c) Creosote;

(B) Green oil;

(B) Sulphuric acid;

(B) Files;

Metals and ores :—

(B) Steel plates and sheets

inch thick and over;

(c) Molasses produced from cane sugar;